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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01

People

Yasser Arafat age 18
Ban Ki-moon age 3
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 2
Konrad Adenauer age 72
Henry Kissinger age 24
Václav Havel age 11
Georges Pompidou age 36
Leonid Brezhnev age 41
Robert Mugabe age 23
Hosni Mubarak age 19
Golda Meir age 49
John XXIII age 66
Dilma Rousseff age 0 months
Deng Xiaoping age 43
Ferdinand Marcos age 30
Malcolm X age 22
François Mitterrand age 31
Alexander Fleming age 66
David Ben-Gurion age 61
Milton Friedman age 35
Ruhollah Khomeini age 45
Valentina Tereshkova age 10
Pol Pot age 22
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 9
Akihito age 14
Helmut Kohl age 17
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 43
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 30
Rosa Parks age 34
Shimon Peres age 24
John Paul I age 35
Anwar Sadat age 29
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 10
Paul VI age 50
Willy Brandt age 34
Gerhard Schröder age 3
Dag Hammarskjöld age 42
Salvador Allende age 39
Hu Jintao age 5
John von Neumann age 44
Augusto Pinochet age 32
Lee Kuan Yew age 24
Suharto age 26
Ariel Sharon age 19
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 29
Desmond Tutu age 16
Sergio Mattarella age 6
Manmohan Singh age 15
Pervez Musharraf age 4
Yuri Andropov age 33
Buzz Aldrin age 17
Mohammad Khatami age 4
Patrice Lumumba age 22
Yitzhak Rabin age 25
Rosalind Franklin age 27
Andrei Sakharov age 26
Dick Cheney age 6
Douglas MacArthur age 68
Raúl Castro age 16
Sheikh Hasina age 3 months
Giorgio Napolitano age 22
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 7
Idi Amin age 23
Rodrigo Duterte age 2
Helmut Schmidt age 29
Margrethe II of Denmark age 7
Rachel Carson age 40
Corazon Aquino age 14
Edward VIII age 53
John Kerry age 4
Madeleine Albright age 10
José Mujica age 12
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 71
Rajiv Gandhi age 3
Thabo Mbeki age 5
Wernher von Braun age 35
Eva Perón age 28
Harald V of Norway age 10
John Major age 4
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 10
Slobodan Milošević age 6
Jacob Zuma age 5
Martti Ahtisaari age 10
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 1
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 12
Konstantin Chernenko age 36
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 16
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 9
Jiang Zemin age 21
Zhou Enlai age 49
Eduard Shevardnadze age 19
Romano Prodi age 8
Robert F. Kennedy age 22
Pranab Mukherjee age 12
Park Chung-hee age 30
Vyacheslav Molotov age 57
Joachim Gauck age 7
Anthony Eden age 50
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 11 months
Menachem Begin age 34
Philippe Pétain age 91
Erich Honecker age 35
Hafez al-Assad age 17
Harold Macmillan age 53
Muhammadu Buhari age 5
Horst Köhler age 4
Tarja Halonen age 4
Daniel Ortega age 2
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 8
Islam Karimov age 9
Dan Quayle age 11 months
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 27
Omar al-Bashir age 4
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 283
Naoto Kan age 1
James Callaghan age 35
Pratibha Patil age 13
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 20
Heydar Aliyev age 24
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei age 1
Mario Draghi age 4 months
Kim Dae-jung age 24
Radovan Karadžić age 2
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 25
Aldo Moro age 31
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 7
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 41
F. W. de Klerk age 11
Ludwig Erhard age 50
Kurt Waldheim age 29
Alexander Van der Bellen age 3
Miloš Zeman age 3
Mobutu Sese Seko age 17
Jomo Kenyatta age 54
Julius Nyerere age 25
Saparmyrat Nyýazow age 7
Yoweri Museveni age 3
Leonid Kuchma age 9
Donald Rumsfeld age 15
Olof Palme age 20
Süleyman Demirel age 23
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 31
Queen Camilla age 5 months
Jonas Salk age 33
Karl Dönitz age 56
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 14
Pierre Trudeau age 28
Fulgencio Batista age 47
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 80
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 59
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 24
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 9 months
Syngman Rhee age 72
Junichiro Koizumi age 6
Tarō Asō age 7
U Thant age 38
Rudolf Hess age 53
Colin Powell age 10
Giulio Andreotti age 29
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 11
Hideki Tojo age 63
Alexander Dubček age 26
Wen Jiabao age 5
Václav Klaus age 6
Ehud Olmert age 2
Francesco Cossiga age 19
Leonid Kravchuk age 14
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 9 months
Puyi age 41
Ahmad ibn Billah age 31
Heinz Fischer age 9
Michael D. Higgins age 6
Mario Monti age 4
Alberto Fujimori age 9
Roh Moo-hyun age 1
Bernard Montgomery age 60
Richard von Weizsäcker age 27
Albert Speer age 42
Ram Nath Kovind age 2
Albert II of Belgium age 13
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 13
José Eduardo dos Santos age 5
John Howard age 8
Rajendra Prasad age 63
Alexander Kerensky age 66
Turgut Özal age 20
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 72
Eisaku Satō age 46
Yukio Hatoyama age 11 months
Georgy Malenkov age 46
Getúlio Vargas age 65
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 26
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 27
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 42
Michel Temer age 7
Sergei Korolev age 41
Edward Heath age 31
Walter Mondale age 20
Paul Biya age 14